RE: Security Organization in Banks

["Dave Dyer" <ddyer () ciber com>]

Alessandro, I'm by no means an expert in this arena, but I believe there was
an article in CIO magazine that spoke about aligning InfoSec under a CTO
versus a CIO.  I've seen this organizational structure in banks, and it
seems quite effective:

http://www.cio.com/archive/041504/homeland.html

Also, most banks in the US are at least a little familiar with the
Sarbanes-Oxley act, which drives many high-level security decisions.  Some
of the security highlights can be found here:

http://www.cio.com/newrules/

I've seen both of these factors first-hand in banks we've done work for in
the past.  However, sending out that information to the mailing list would
probably not be smiled upon.  Hope that helps.

Thanks,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Alessandro Bottonelli [mailto:a.bottonelli () axis-net it] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:18 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Security Organization in Banks

Hi,

I am looking for "case studies" on how US and/or European Banks 
set up their Security Organizations. Before you tell me... I 
already googled with no good answers! :-(

I am more interested at how they set up organizationally than 
technically. I mean: is there one single organization for both 
"traditional" security and IT security or are they two distinct 
orgs? To whom the head(s) of such security org(s) report? If and 
how traditional and IT security are integrated, and to what 
degree?

Any resources out there or cases you can report first-hand? The 
names of the Banks would be nice, but the region will eventually 
suffice.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Alessandro Bottonelli
CISSP & BS7799 Lead Auditor
A.Bottonelli(at)axis-net.it

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